To ask for your experiences of vitamin D deficiency

[chinesechicken]

I've been experiencing extreme tiredness for about 6 months now, i'm exhausted after a 10 hour sleep. I do work 3 x 12 hour shifts a week but even when i just had 2 weeks off on annual leave i felt the same.

I have terrible muscle and joint pains and have been under physio for my ankles for a couple of months, i find it hard to walk in the morning and i feel like i'm about 90 years old. I can't play the piano anymore properly.

I have a hot water bottle all the time, even now in the hot weather, i'm just so miserable.

I pestered the GP for blood tests, eventually she let me have them but she thinks I am tired as I have had 2 babies in the last 2 years. it's not that, i feel like i'm dying of tiredness sometimes it's ridiculous.

I thought it would be my thyroid, it turns out the only thing i have is a vitamin d deficiency.

She told me to take an over the counter dose of 400iu. it's been a month and i still feel horrendous. So I looked online and i've seen people in other countries on MUCH higher doses with a similar blood test result to me.

I've just gone and bought some 1000iu tablets... does this all sound like vitamin d deficiency? I've seen 3 GPs now and all of them are not taking me seriously. I'm considering going private but I don't have the money spare if I can help it really. My life is really miserable at the moment and I am exhausted and aching in my joints 24/7 and it's really getting me down, i'm 26.

My blood test results are as follows:

TSH: 1.16 mU/L

Serum free t4 level: 16 pmol/L

Total Vitamin D - 37.4nmol/L

Thank you if you got this far

OP, just looked at the FB group and they use Blue Horizon finger prick test. Do you have neuro symptoms?

Vit D deficiency is often connected with hypothyroidism (i have same issue). Over the counter doses here in UK are laughably low plus GP have no clue whatsoever about thyroid problems.
It took me 6 months taking 4000ui to go from below 8 to 50 (during summer as well). In UK there is so little sunlight we have to supplement vit D.
OP when you take vit D make sure it's taken after meal and ideally it's a capsule with oil (linen/linseed is the best for absorption).

Hi, my husband had these symptoms for years and a blood test for something else picked up that he had hyperparathyroidism - google it and see if the other symptoms fit you too.